Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-03-24
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ing session. q resolution providing for
the appointment Of a board Of visitors to
the University of Tennessee was adopted.
Senate bin giving street railroad compa-
MES the right to consolidate passed.
The special order Of the day. the Chatta-
nooga improvement bill, wasstakcn up
and occupied the whole of the morning
session. The senate In the afternoon
slightly amended the house bill for the
issuance Of bonds by Chattanooga and
passed 1t. ?
In the house the bill to extend the cor
! porate limits Of Morristown passed.
Mr.. Mynatt called up the bill to appro.
pirate $4,000 to pay for repairs to the
East Tennessee Asylum, and 1t was pas
sed. an I.
Several bills passed changing county
lines.
March 17.-In the senate in the morn.
ing session the house bin appropriating
$3.50, 900 for the completion Of the West
Tennessee asylum was passed.
In the house in the morning session
Mr.. Harris bill to protect the female
pupils in boarding schools failed for
want of a constitutional majority. Mr..
Littleton's bill giving county courts pow
or over orphan asylums, passed.
Mr.. Littleton's bill giving consent to
the United States purchasing lands on
the Cumberland for locks and dam
passed.
The senate night session W as occupied
in considering local bills.
March Ex-senator Sparks bill to pre-.
vent anybody from buying any intoxi-
eating liquors without taking out liquor
drinkers license was rejected by a vote
"a to 8. Moneys bill to allow pool sell
ling and betting on horse races in or
ontside of the state was passed and a
motion to reconsider was tabled. Towns
bill to provide stenographers for crimi-
nal courts passed. Trimble's bill to give
cities the right to grant exclusive privi.
lege to natural gas companies for the
period of twenty years passed.
The house is still discussing Savage's
railroad regulation bill.
March 19.-In the senate the house
joint resolution opposing the reopening
Of the Virginia, and Tennessee boundary
line question was concurred in. The
house joint resolution allowing colored
cadets to enter Fisk University and
Knoxville college was concurred in. The
house joint resolution to destroy the Tor
bett issue was concurred in. The house
bill to create the office of county judge
Of Knox county was passed. The senate
bill to provide for the inspection of
meats failed. Adjourned till Monday. r
In the house in the moring session Mr..
Elcan introduced O resolution inviting
the National Educational Association to
meet in Nashville In the hall of the house
next year. Adopted. .A
Mr.. Dulaney's bill to charter the Far
} mer's and Laborer's Mutual Association
passed. Consideration of the assessment
, bill was resumed. The house in the
afternoon continued the consideration
) Of the assessment bill, reaching the sixty.
third section, then took up the Local
bills, but o call Of the roll was demanded,
. uioSlooihb hO 4uoAdAh PlCbCut duu tht
house adjourned till Monday.
MARCH 81. -Senate-Mr. Trimble in
troduced a bill to protect employees In
I the employ Of corporations. The bill
giving courts jurisdiction over vender
Of liens, was passed. The bill to max
seduction a felony wits reflector in &C
h cordance with the report Of the judiciar.
committee. The bill to protect employee
by making 1t a misdemeanor for corpora
lions to withhold laborers' wages for pur
: pose Of making them trade at company
. stores, was passed. The bill to appro
pirate $780, 900 for the East TENNESSEE
! Hospital for the Insane, was passed by
q vote OF ~ to a.
Afternoon session-The bill to exempt
a number of counties from the provis.
ions of fish law passed. The bill to re.
fund to druggists taxes paid by them
for the privilege Of selling was recon-.
mended for rejection by the committee
on finance, ways and means, was re.
jected. The bill to increase the perma-
l uCut bCuOOl luuu w i've ulllliUu uOlldIh
was rejected. The bill to divide the
State into insane hospital districts, pass
cd. The Senate adjourned till Tuesday.
In the House the morning hour was
consumed in the consideration of the
assessment bill, and the House adjourn
ed till 2 o'clock. At the afternoon SEES.
sion the bill passed by a vote of fifty to
thlrty.seven. The Cole industrial school
bill was taken from the table and q tire.
some debate followed. The motion to
strike out the enacting clause failed. AT
night the Randall Cole Institute bill was
cussed and discussed at length but the
House adjourned without action.
l March 22.-In the Senate the House
joint resolution rendering the hall Of the
House to the National Educational Asso.
citation, was concurred in. The House
bills, on third reading, comforting juris.
ton on county courts to enforce q ven.
doris lien. not exceeding fifty dollars.
passed. To make seduction q felony,
rejected. The bill for the protection OF
workmen In the purchase OF goods and
supplies, and providing that wages shall
NV w WiIhiOiu pSSuuoo thO iuuoiCio w
not see proper to trade at the firms store
was passed. The bill ,appropriating
money for the completion Of the East
Tennessee Hospital for Insane was passed.
= In the afternoon consideration of House
/ bills on third reading to amend the laws
/, Of descent and distribution, passed; Ia
change the criminal practice In regard ia
: putting juries under rule, passed; to re-
fund the amount Of licenses to certain
druggists, rejected; to increase the school
fund to Ave millions, rejected by u vote
!. of 10 ayes 10 IA nays; TO change the TINT
of holding court at Blountville, passed
: to extend the right of appeal to habeal
corpus cases, passed; to regulate tn,
wages Of laborers, passed.
Q The House agreed to the Senate amend
ment. to the bill creating the Office o
4 county Judge OF Knox county. TIL
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